Aiba also made a guest appearance on the final episode of bandmate Ninomiya's drama Freeter, Ie o Kau ( フリーター、家を買う。, Part-time Worker, Buys a House), which aired on December 21, 2010. Starting January 2011, Aiba starred as genius bartender Ryū Sasakura ( 佐々 倉溜, Sasakura Ryū) in the drama adaptation of the manga Bartender. He portrayed Akira Tanada ( 棚田 昭, Tanada Akira), a 28-year-old coffee shop employee who is caught up in a building hijack. In January 2010, Aiba co-starred with the other members of Arashi in the human suspense drama special Saigo no Yakusoku. In My Girl, Aiba portrayed a young man who discovers that he has a five-year-old daughter after receiving the news that his girlfriend, who he has not seen in six years, was killed in an accident. On August 2, 2009, it was announced that Aiba would not only act in his first drama series in nearly six years but also star as the lead actor for the first time. After the announcement of the formation of Arashi in September 1999 and their position as supporters for the 1999 Volleyball World Cup competition, all five members starred together for the first time in the volleyball-centered short drama V no Arashi.Īlthough Aiba was featured in a number of dramas such as Mukodono 2003 ( ムコ殿2003, The Son-in-Law 2003) and Yankee Bokō ni Kaeru ( ヤンキー母校に帰る, Drop-out Teacher Returns to School), he became more known for his appearances in variety shows instead and went on to focus on stage productions after Yankee Bokō ni Kaeru. In 1997, Aiba made his drama debut portraying Akira, one of the many children left to survive in a city under government lockdown after a mysterious disease wipes out all the adults, in the drama Bokura no Yūki: Miman Toshi ( ぼくらの勇気, Our Courage: Miman City). He portrayed a young man hovering over life and death due to a violent traffic accident.
Īiba reunited with director Keiko Miyata ( 宮田 慶子, Miyata Keiko), who has been the director for his stage plays since 2005, and took on the lead role for Kimi to Miru Sen no Yume ( 君と見る千の夢, The Thousand Dreams I Dream With You), which ran from May 5 to 24, 2010.
In early 2008, Aiba was given the lead role of Colin Briggs in the stage play called Greenfingers, which was adapted from the movie of the same name. It was the first stage adaptation of the 1993 film Untamed Heart. In 2007, Aiba portrayed Adam, a shy young man with a heart defect, in Wasurerarenai Hito ( 忘れられない人, Unforgettable Person). In 2005, Aiba took up the lead role of Keiji Takashima ( 高島 啓治, Takashima Keiji), a naive but honest station attendant living in a world after a World War III nuclear war, in Tsubame no Iru Eki ( 燕のいる駅, A Station with Swallows). Acting career Stage Īiba began acting in a 1997 stage play based on an American coming of age film called Stand by Me with future bandmates Jun Matsumoto and Kazunari Ninomiya. Aiba also used to play the saxophone however, due to the collapse of one of his lungs in 2002, he was forced to stop playing due to the operation he had to undergo. For his solo song "Hello Goodbye", Aiba played the harmonica portion of the song throughout Arashi's Arashi Marks 2008 Dream-A-Live and Arashi Marks Arashi Around Asia 2008 concert tours. In collaboration with the other members, he has written the lyrics to "Fight Song" and "5x10". Music career įor music-related releases and activities as a member of Arashi, see Arashi. Wanting to play basketball with them, he sent in the application to join the talent agency himself, without exactly knowing what the agency specialized in until the day of auditions. Prior to joining Johnny & Associates, Aiba watched a program called Love Love SMAP ( 愛ラブSMAP, Ai Rabu SMAP) and saw SMAP playing basketball on television. Aiba was raised by his grandparents until he was four years old because his parents were busy running their newly opened Chinese cuisine restaurant then. He has a younger brother who is four years younger.
Aiba was born in Hanamigawa, Chiba as the first child of his family.
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